Reverse Parser

Azure Resource
Name Parser

Paste any Azure resource name and AzureNamer deconstructs it into CAF components — resource type, workload, environment, region, and instance.

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Paste an Azure resource name above to see its CAF components.

How the parser works

Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework defines a fixed component order for resource names: type-company-department-workload-environment-region-instance. Because the order is predictable, the parser anchors on the parts it can recognise with certainty — the leading resource-type abbreviation, and the trailing environment, region, and instance — then infers the free-text middle (workload, and optionally company and department).

Limitations

  • Company / department / workload can't always be told apart — they're free text with no fixed values, so the parser labels them by position.
  • Names without hyphens (like storage accounts) are harder to split, since there are no delimiters between components. The parser does its best and flags lower confidence.
  • Region abbreviations follow the common community convention — Microsoft's CAF doesn't publish official ones.

Need to go the other way? Use the name generator to build CAF-compliant names from scratch.